„This freedom from absolute, arbitrary power, is so necessary to, and closely joined with a man’s preservation, that he cannot part with it, but by what forfeits his preservation and life together: for a man, not having the power of his own life“. (Sect. 23) #Locke #power
„THE state of war is a state of enmity and destruction“. (Sect. 16) #Locke #War
„THE natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.“ (Sect. 22) #Locke #LibertyOfMan #LawOfNature
„Pour qu’un gouvernement ne soit pas en droit de punir les erreurs des hommes, il est nécessaire que ces erreurs ne soient pas des crimes ; elles ne sont des crimes que quand elles troublent la société : elles troublent cette société, dès qu’elles inspirent le fanatisme ; il faut donc que les hommes commencent par n’être pas fanatiques pour mériter la tolérance.“ (Chap. XVIII) #Voltaire #fanatique #tolérance
„The liberty of man, in society, is to be under no other legislative power, but that established, by consent, in the commonwealth; nor under the dominion of any will, or restraint of any law, but what that legislative shall enact, according to the trust put in it.“ (Sect. 22) #Locke #liberty #society #power